
Art Institute of Chicago
Pink Composition (Composition en rose)
Wou-Ki Zao · 1951
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Galerie Pierre, Paris, to Joseph W. Faulkner, Main Street Gallery, Chicago, 1952; sold to James W. Alsdorf (died 1990) about 1952; given to the Art Institute, 1954.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Main Street Gallery, 1952.
- Lincoln, University of Nebraska, University Galleries, Nebraska Art Association, Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, March 1953, no cat. no., as The Wolf and the Deer.
Literature
Published references
- Dorothy Holland and W.E. Militzer, Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (Lincoln, NE: University Galleries, University of Nebraska, 1953), 11, as The Wolf and the Deer.
- C.C. Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, a Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 487, by error as The World and the Deer.
- C.C. Cunningham, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, November 15, 1966), 64, as The Wolf and the Deer.
- Jean Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki (Edition Hier et Demain and Ediciones Poligrafa, 1978), 71, cat. 28 (color ill.), as Composition.
- Jean Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, trans. Kenneth Lyons (Rizzoli International Publications, 1979), 71, cat. 28 color ill.), as Composition.
- Jean-Luc Chalumeau, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 2003), 66 (color ill), as Composition rose ou Le Loup et le Cerf.
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